Sentences with phrase «drop out of the atmosphere»

Every spring in the high Arctic, stable mercury in the air gets converted to a more reactive form that drops out of the atmosphere.

Since methane drops out of the atmosphere faster than CO2, timescale matters in comparing the two.

These were intriguing, as well as highly speculative: first the possibility of deliberately using additional targeted aerosol injection to stimulate coagulation of the particles in the volcanic aerosol; mitigating its effects by causing the particles to drop out of the atmosphere more swiftly.

Then during the 1930s I would expect sulfates to quickly drop out of the atmosphere due to severe economic decline.

Not exact matches

He seals the paper sample inside the machine's chamber, and a pump sucks out the air until the pressure drops to a staggering 10 ^ -6 Torr (a billionth of an atmosphere).

Because they are larger to begin with, the salty drops soon grow so heavy that they fall out of the atmosphere as precipitation, taking much of the dirt down with them.

The Titan Effect removed methane from the atmosphere and the haze filtered out light; both caused further cooling, perhaps a temperature drop of 40 to 50 degrees Celsius.

These clouds lasted about two hours and then faded away, presumably because the methane condensed as enormous raindrops (or even as snow) and dropped out of the hazy clouds at a snowflake - like pace through the thick atmosphere.

Iron From Ice is a strong start to the series, with some promising narrative setups, a believable atmosphere, and one particularly shocking moment that made my jaw drop... I do hope we see the playable characters get a bit of a personality injection, but I think we've got a favorable introduction that lays out its pieces in such a way that Episode Two is only going to be fascinating.

Lest anyone think it's a good idea to let the soot back, the aerosols drop down out of the atmosphere within a year or two, but the CO2 remains.

The difference is in the residence time, mainly due to the lack of water vapour: the stratospheric injection of SO2 by the Pinatubo did last 2 - 3 years before the reflecting drops were large enough to fall out of the atmosphere.

The average time that these drops grow before dropping out of the stratosphere / atmosphere is 2 - 3 years.

«The plants love it and it actually becomes a way of taking carbon out of the atmosphere,» Antarctic scientist Steve Nicol told Reuters, adding the droppings appear as a plume of solids and liquids.

That means that if the emissions should stop, next year there would be a drop of about 3 GtC out of the atmosphere, the second year about 2.4 GtC,... etc., until a new equilibrium is reached.